I've got a question about an OS upgrade.
I'm planning to do a upgrade from AIX UNIX 4.3.2 to 4.3.3 in a few weeks.
I haven't got that much information.
Could someone give me some general tips or hints, things I should think of before? Things I should know, or general errors.
I know this question is a bit weird maybe,
But any tips or hints are welcome,
Thanks in advance!
Erik
Erik,
I moved your topic over here since it is AIX specific. Hopefully you will get a better response too.
I actually did this upgrade to a couple of our production servers last winter.
It is really stright forward, just make sure you have plenty of backups and mksysb on hand just incase you need to roll back. I took 3 mksysb's and 3 misc backups. befor i started the upgrade.
You might want to also make sure your microcode is also uptodate since you are also upgradeing your OS.
If you are running any "outside" vendor software i would make sure your upgrade is commpatable w/ their software.
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